Former Jasper Baseball Player Dies

Updated 11:33 am, Friday, August 30, 2013

Former Jasper High School baseball player Drake Floyd, 19, of Hudson, is currently in critical condition due to complications sustained from a workplace incident. Courtesy photo.

Former Jasper High School baseball player Drake Floyd, 19, of Hudson, is currently in critical condition due to complications sustained from a workplace incident. Courtesy photo.

Former Jasper Baseball Player Dies

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Drake Floyd was pronounced dead by his attending physicians around 11 a.m., Friday, Aug. 30. One of Jasper High School's former own was critically injured after an on-the-job incident earlier this week.

Drake Floyd, 19, son of former Jasper residents Steve and Cecilia Floyd, sustained severe complications late Tuesday evening while on shift at a McCoy's Building Supply location, in Lufkin, Texas.

Floyd was later transferred from Lufkin Memorial Hospital to Memorial Hermann's trauma care unit in Houston, Texas, where sources state he is currently in critical condition.

Steve and Cecilia Floyd, the parents of Drake Floyd, stated Wednesday afternoon that the only injury Floyd sustained was a cracked sternum, but that his attending physicians are concerned about the amount of time Floyd spent in cardiac arrest and the subsequent effects from the lack of oxygen supply to his brain during that time.

Floyd's parents would like to thank the Lufkin Fire Department and Lufkin Police Department for "taking such good care of Drake." They would also like to thank the public for their compassioned outreach, and ask for continued prayer over their son's current medical condition.